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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development

The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development

Author: Sumudu A. Atapattu; Carmen G. Gonzalez; Sara L. Seck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108470001
Published In: April 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse. This handbook offers critical perspectives on the multi-dimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity. The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice.

Using a variety of legal frameworks and case studies from around the world, this volume illustrates the importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic solutions that promote justice and protect the planet's ecosystems at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.

Foreword by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

1. Intersections of environmental justice and sustainable development: framing the issues

Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Sara L. Seck

Part I. Frameworks:

2. The indivisibility of human dignity and sustainability

Erin Daly and James R May

3. Environmental justice in the global south

Usha Natarajan

4. Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability

Deborah McGregor

5. Racial capitalism and the anthropocene

Carmen G Gonzalez

6. Human rights and socio-ecological justice through a vulnerability lens

Louis J. K-otze

7. Social-ecological resilience and its relation to the social pillar of sustainable development

Barbara Cosens

8. Environmental justice and sustainability: the United States experience

Robin Morris Collin and Robert W. Collin

Part II. Case studies; strategies, challenges and vulnerable groups:

9. The role of public interest litigation in realizing environmental justice in South Asia: selected cases as guidance in implementing agenda 2030

Shyami Puvimanasinghe

10. Children's rights or intergenerational equity? exploring children's place in environmental justice

Mona Pare

11. Managing water as life in Guatemala: lessons on environmental justice from Totonicapan

Patricia Galvao Ferreira and Mario Mancilla

12. Indigenous ancestors. Recognizing legal personality of nature as a reconciliation strategy for connective sustainable governance Jacinta Ruru

13. Water justice and the social pillar of sustainable development: the case of Israel

Tamar Meshel

14. Gender, indigeneity, and the search for environmental justice in post-colonial Africa

Damilola S. Olawuyi

15. Colombo international financial city: an example of un-sustainability and in-justice

Lakshman Guruswamy, Joshua C Gellers and Sumudu Atapattu

16. Chemical pollution and the role of international law in a future detoxified

Sabaa Ahmed Khan

17. China's cancer villages

Quoc Nguyen, Linda Tsang, Tseming Yang

18. Colonialism, environmental injustice, and sustainable development: nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands

Antonio Pigrau

19.The Vedanta (Niyamgiri) case: promoting environmental justice and sustainable development

Stellina Jolly

20. De marginalizing the intersection of ecological and social disadvantage in South Africa: a critique of current approaches to dealing with historical injustice - the Tudor shaft case study

Jackie Dugard

21. Sustainable mining, environmental justice, and the human rights of women and girls: Canada as home and host state

Sara L. Seck and Penelope Simons

22. Environmental justice, sustainable development and the fight to shut the Poletti power plant

Rebecca M. Bratspies

23. The indigeneity of environmental justice: a Dakota access pipeline case study

Elizabeth Kronk Warner

24. Energy poverty, justice and women

Lakshman Guruswamy

25. 'Energy without injustice'? indigenous participation in renewable energy generation

Adrian A. Smith and Dayna Nadine Scott

26. Climate justice and the social pillar in California's climate policies